I’d also like to get some round radishes – french breakfast would be good, need to get some seed spuds and i’d like to try to get golden burpees beetroot, cos it would give a lovely contrast with normal beetroot and chioggia, which i’ve already got. Raspberries or loganberries would be good , but good plants are expensive and they’re space hoggers so i may not. we’ll see.

I’ve just done a little online research. Lemon verbena and lemon balm both propagate by means of cuttings, so they’ll be difficult to get. I have, however, found chervil at Mr Fothergills, along with Mint (I’d like to build a collection of differnt mints though) and Rosemary, so i may get them from there. However, i’ll have a quick look at various shops to see if i manage to get lucky in a shop first, i think. start small and build up.. gah. keep trying to walk before i can run.

Does anyone else have any recommendations for herbs? I’m trying to build a nice container based herb garden as well as all my vegetables. I’ve already got, in addition to the ones that arrived this morning: Dill, Coriander, Thyme, Chives, Parsley – both curly and flatleaf, Basil – sweet, thai, Sage, oregano, green fennel, and bronze fennel. thanks!

I’ve replanted the daffodils and bluebells – in pots, for now, while i deal with the beds (so they don’t get trodden on). Long term they’ll go back in the beds under the trees to come up each year anew. Caught one of the kids coming in the garden earlier through the gap in the fence between me and the neighbour – right over the newly dug part of bed 3. I told him to use “the bloody gate” (sorry, but i was cross). *sighs*. I may wander down to the housing in a bit – my period started this morning and i feel yucky but some fresh air and a gentle walk might do me good. find out when they’re planning to show up to fix the fence, and see if i can find out any more about this fence replacement thing. like when and how tall! Then a bath later. A nice warm bath would do me good, i think. 🙂

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Keth, I think you were really restrained with the kid! What you plant for herbs depends of course on what you like to eat–or what you like to smell. I can’t be without lavender, myself, or rosemary, basil, oregano, thyme, or lemon verbena–which I plant only so I can run my fingers through it and savour the scent.

Jodi – with the kid.. i maybe should’t have called him a kid. He’s a 15 year old lad. quite big enough to beat me up if he got me alone with his mates, or to throw bricks through my window, or set fires. We don’t live in the most salubrious area, so with anything like that you have to tread a very fine line between letting them walk all over you and going so far that they’re sufficiently motivated to do something nasty. *sighs*.

as for what i like to eat.. hmm. well i like to eat a lot of things.. LOL. I’m trying to eat more vegetables and reduce bad things like fat and sugar so anything that ups the flavour quotient without adding fat/sugar will be good. i do quite a lot of cooking with herbs already but they’re mostly bought from the shops which is a) expensive b) limited, because the uk doesn’t have all herbs widely available. Chervil, for example, or lovage, which are so widely known in europe, are rare here, and some herbs just don’t dry very well (those i plan to store via alternative methods, like freezing in an icecube). i adore cooking too so it all adds up.

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